On the Edge: Astonishing True Stories of Exploration, Survival and Endurance

by John Keay (editor)

The editor of this fine work, John Keay, treats the reader to many stories of exploration, survival and endurance. Explorers once hogged the world's headlines and captured the public imagination to a degree which would be almost unthinkable today. Keay's collection makes gripping and fascinating reading and will undoubtedly establish itself as the pre-eminent anthology on the subject.

443 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1999

About the author

John Stanley Melville Keay FRGS is an English journalist and author specialising in writing popular histories about India and the Far East, often with a particular focus on their colonisation and exploration by Europeans.

John Keay is the author of about 20 books, all factual, mostly historical, and largely to do with Asia, exploration or Scotland. His first book stayed in print for thirty years; many others have become classics. His combination of meticulous research, irreverent wit, powerful narrative and lively prose have invariably been complimented by both reviewers and readers.

UK-based and a full-time author since 1973, he also wrote and presented over 100 documentaries for BBC Radios 3 and 4 from 1975-95 and guest-lectured tour groups 1990-2000. He reviews on related subjects, occasionally speaks on them, and travels extensively.